Can't say for certain. When Amber was 6 months old we ended up paying probably about $700 (a life savings for us, especially at that time) to get her well from a severe URI. But when my older cat Y.Lee was in for MORE tests and treatment due to his diabetes (the disease had not even become regulated during the 6 months we tried ) we chose no more treatment. His was age as well as his attutude toward those tests and treatments helped to make this decision. (my normally sweetest cat on the planet turned into a Taz. devil for the vets and techs) I would have done anything for him but I did not want to do more TO him.

I can tell you this, I would not be as loyal to my pets as some of you here at pet talk have been. I do not love my cats any less than any of these other members love their pets, but I have seen first hand too many cases of people spending enormous amounts of money just to have their beloved pets die anyway and then they question why they put their pets through the horrible testing or treatments making their last days even MORE painful.